Education
BA University of London, 1987
PhD University of London, 1991
Research Interests
Marcus Bull’s research focuses on the narratology of historical texts from the central medieval period to the sixteenth century, an interest that informs his most recent book: Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative: Perception and Narration in Accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2018). He is currently engaged in two book projects: a study of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565, with particular reference to the ways in which its representations in word and image sought to capture what participants were believed to have experienced in person; and an exploration of experience, memory, the play of social scripts and self-construction in the memoirs of Pierre de Bourdeille, better known as Brantôme.
Some Notable Publications
- Eyewitness and Crusade Narration: Perception and Narration in Accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2018)
- Co-editor, Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2014)
- Co-editor, The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2013)
- Co-editor, Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century, Proceedings of the British Academy, 170, (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2011)
- Thinking Medieval: An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2005)
- Co-editor, The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2005)
- Co-editor, The Experience of Crusading: Western Approaches. Presented to Jonathan Riley-Smith on his 65th Birthday (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 2003)
- Editor, France in the Central Middle Ages 900–1200, The Short Oxford History of France (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2002)
- The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation (Boydell; Woodbridge, 1999)
- Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony c.970–c.1130 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 1993)
Graduate Students
- This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
- Benjamin Comshaw
- Kathryn Hager
- Anna Lukyanova
- Tatum Tullis
- Robert Williamson
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
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- HIST 89—History and Myth in Film
- HIST 107—Introduction to Medieval History
- HIST 108-Introduction to Early Medieval History
- HIST 229-History of London 43-1666
- HIST 398—Seeing the Past: Eyewitness and Autobiographical Narratives Since the Middle Ages
- HIST 434—Medieval England
- HIST 437—Aristocratic Culture in the Central Middle Ages
- HIST 438—Medieval Masculinities
- HIST 701—Introduction to Medieval Studies
- HIST 890—Historiography and Narrative